Sam Watson

Itinerant Brit usually found bouncing round the more remote bits of the Middle East, Asia or northeast Africa in a variety of battered Land Rovers.

[Sam Watson @SamWatson__]

Seven years ago tonight - with the revolutionary crowds in Martyrs' Square, Beirut. Quite a night for Lebanon ❤️

[Sam Watson @SamWatson__]

@RobCSAdams Ndatenda :)

[Sam Watson @SamWatson__]

Very very (very) glad to be finally booking flights out to Africa again - late November and I'll be back in Zimbabwe with the two Ladies in the pic who are waiting patiently for safari ❤️

[Sam Watson @SamWatson__]

July 2008, southern Morocco. Taking aid donations (clothes, toys, books, food) to Tuareg refugee camp from Terrington Hall school near York

[Sam Watson @SamWatson__]

Aug '05, breaking camp on ash plain at foot of active volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania. I'd been warned that locals had abducted overlanders the day before so, tho' it doesn't look it, this is dead ground where i could stay the night unobserved. That day -on to the Serengeti

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Oct 2024, lightweight camp in North Yorkshire forest with a @hennessyhammock

[Sam Watson @SamWatson__]

May 2022, the eastern Himalayas of Nepal - the bamboo forests near Ilam in a beautiful Series 1 with Aakash Shrestha and thanks to Raj Gyawali

[Kris Thienpont @kthienpo]

@SamWatson__ Bought it from you at the LRO show. A fantastic book, I enjoyed every minute reading it. Thanks Sam.

[Sam Watson @SamWatson__]

@kthienpo Really glad you liked it Kris :) thanks! :)

[Sam Watson @SamWatson__]

Finally got round to putting my book on eBay, if anyone is short of Xmas present ideas! Includes international postage if needed
Link - https://t.co/yaMeCXMV4B

[Karanbir Singh @kbsingh]

I had the chance to shake hands and get it in person. Can confirm it's a great collection centered around vehicle based exploring. If that is your vibe, this is a great book. If vehicle based exploring isn't your vibe, this is a great taster on what the experience can be.

[Sam Watson @SamWatson__]

@kbsingh Thank you :)

[Sam Watson @SamWatson__]

@AaronMitchellUK The only one of mine that's been unreliable had a Japanese engine. I regularly take mine solo into the Saharan and Arabian deserts - if LRs were unreliable, I'd be dead :)

[Sam Watson @SamWatson__]

August 2005, waking up in the rainforest on the slopes of Mount Kenya whilst mapping elephant-proof fences with the Born Free Foundation, Kenya Wildlife Service and the Mt Kenya Trust

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

I don't want flying cars.

I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.

[Sam Watson @SamWatson__]

@AaronMitchellUK Currently 6 in 3 countries :) I hate selling them but sometimes circumstances force it. Total owned is I think 14 :/

[Sam Watson @SamWatson__]

Aug 2015, another Cambodian hotel room sign, this time in Kep. I only stay at classy places. ("Sorry, I thought grenades were allowed here?" "No sir. You were thinking of the Marriott")

[Sam Watson @SamWatson__]

Aug 2015, hotel key card, Kampot, Cambodia

[Sam Watson @SamWatson__]

April 2020, a day in the Umm Al Qawain dunes eith an open top Series 2 :)

[Sam Watson @SamWatson__]

Nine (!) years ago today in the Hajjar mountains of Sharjah - looking for a place to camp at dusk with Bumblebee